Sentence example with the word 'makings'

makings

ability, circumstance, dowry, fixings, gleanings, item, net profit, perquisite, rake-off, take

Last update: August 19, 2015


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Pratinas was also the introducer of satyric dramas as a species of entertainment distinct from tragedy, in which the rustic merry-makings and the extravagant dances of the satyrs were retained.   [Please select]

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He has the makings of a first-rate sailor.   [Please select]

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There will be fireworks to-night, at nine o'clock, to conclude the merry-makings.'   [Please select]

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In the second place, it must be remembered that Elizabeth's courtships and pretended love-makings were almost always a part of her diplomacy.   [Please select]

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He had the makings, her experienced eye could see, of a passionately persistent grabber.   [Please select]

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I once had the makings of one--of a good one,--a 'proper' one, as the English would say.   [Please select]

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Wull, ef he dies it'll be a pity, for he 'ave the makings in 'im of a first-rate perfessional.'   [Please select]

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I've got the makings of a big man if ever I'd get enough to eat.   [Please select]

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"They've got the makings of very decent quarters," he admitted handsomely.   [Please select]

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Dearly as she had always loved the old Percy, she felt the new one whom she had met to-day had the makings of a stronger and finer character than she had ever dared to hope.   [Please select]

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